Hi everyone and welcome to today's lesson. Today we are going to be focusing on describing yourself, which is generally using the verbs there, giving your name, birthplace, and birthdate, and giving basic information about yourself in Spanish. This is the goal of this first unit for this week.
Introductions when we're talking to people tend to follow a pattern. You say hi, you ask for someone's name. where they're from, and perhaps how they are or what they're like, like how they're doing essentially and what they're like.
That's the goal of this week, just learning to interact with these basic conventions in Spanish. So saying hello. In Spanish, there are more or less four, I mean, there's many, many more, but four basic ways to say hello. And that would be hola, hola. Notice that you don't pronounce the H on this.
It's just hola. We also have buenos dias. Buenos dias is good morning.
So you say this before noon on any given day. Buenas tardes. Buenas tardes.
Buenas tardes is what we're going to say in the afternoon. So from noon until around 6-7 p.m. is what we're gonna say.
Buenas tardes. And finally, after night, we will say buenas noches. Buenas noches. And this would translate to like good evening, good night, something to that effect.
Buenas noches. So we have four basic ways of saying hello. So you always start the conversation with one of these.
You can say hola and then one of the other ones like hola, buenos dias. But you generally won't say buenos dias and buenas noches at the same time. That wouldn't make any sense.
Continuing on. ¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Cómo te llamas? is the question that you're going to ask when you want to know somebody's name.
¿Cómo te llamas? So looking at this guy's social media profile, what is his name? ¿Cómo se llama? What is his name? Yeah, it's John DeVoe.
So if I were responding as him, I would say, me llamo John DeVoe. Me llamo. So that's how I give my name.
Me llamo John DeVoe. ¿Cómo estás? ¿Cómo estás? How are you?
How are you doing today? ¿Cómo estás? He looks pretty happy.
So let's say, estoy bien. Gracias. ¿Y tú?
¿Y tú? is a little question we add to the end. ¿Y tú?
is like, how about you? ¿Y tú? Estoy bien, gracias. ¿Y tú?
Oh, muy bien. Gracias. Muy bien.
Muy bien. Very good. Muy bien. All right, let's keep looking at his profile and see if we can get some more information from him. De donde eres?
So if I'm talking to John and I ask him, de donde eres? I want to know where he's from. De donde eres? And so looking down here, I can see his origen is Watertown, Colorado.
So the way that I give that information is with the word soy. Soy de. Yo soy de Watertown, Colorado.
So I am from. Yo soy de. Watertown, Colorado. And then he just gave his nationality. He is a United Statesian, so he would say soy estadounidense.
Soy estadounidense. ¿Cuántos años tienes? So here we're looking for his age. How old is this guy? ¿Cuántos años tienes?
So we look down at his profile and we see the word edad. It looks like a couple of numbers, 23. It's reasonable for his age, right? Edad, 23 años. The way that you give that information is tengo. Yo tengo 23 años.
I am. Yo tengo 23 años. And now.
We are asking about his email. ¿Cuál es tu correo electrónico? ¿Cuál es tu correo electrónico?
Looking down, trying to find. Oh, correo electrónico. So that is jsdebeau at tell.com.
At tell.com. Mi correo es. That's how you respond. Mi correo electrónico.
S, J.S. DeVoe. at tel.com. And if you want to say it in Spanish, jsdabo arroba tel.com.
So this symbol here in Spanish is arroba, arroba tel. tel.com tel.com Getting some more information from him. Qualis to numero de telefono.
They want to give him a call. So looking down here, we have teléfono. So I would say, mi número de teléfono es el 303-214-38-37.
So when you have like four numbers in a row, you'll normally divide them up into two. Like 38, 77. 38, 77. All right, so we just went through John and his profile. I want you guys to take a quick look at Maria and her profile. Go ahead and pause the video and answer the questions off to the left.
These are the questions that we had just asked. And just give me as complete of an answer. you can. If you can only write the words from the profile that's fine, but if you can go back and look at the how he wrote the full sentence that would also be great.
Alright I'm going to pause the video for a second. Do you guys want to pause as well? Alright let's see if we can get these answers. ¿Cómo te llamas?
So I'm going to pretend to be her and answer these questions. ¿Cómo te llamas? Yo me llamo Maria Leon. Maria Leon.
¿Cómo estás? Looking at that picture, she looks pretty happy. Estoy bien.
Estoy bien. ¿De dónde eres? So we look down here for her origin.
¿De dónde eres? San Antonio, Texas. So she could say, yo soy de San Antonio.
She can also say, Soy de Estados Unidos. Estados Unidos is the United States. Estados Unidos. ¿Cuál es tu correo electrónico? She would say, Mi correo electrónico es mleon.net.
This right here is her email. M, or M, M, leon, arroba, prodigy, punto net. In Lingual Learning, in the Getting Started tab, there is a section with the alphabet. We'll go through the alphabet, but it's really useful because they go through and you can look at the letter, you can see the sound it makes, and they also have a button to hear it. All right.
Where were we? ¿Cuál es tu número de teléfono? ¿Cuál es tu número de teléfono?
Teléfono. So I would say, mi, mi, número de teléfono es 440-345-3765. So it's this one right here.
Continuing on up here, I just want you guys to give me your own information about yourselves. I have a whole lot of phrases over here that will help you to complete, especially these ones down here. Mi nombre es, my name is, mi apellido es, my last name is.
If you have two last names, mis apellidos son. Yo soy de, trabajo en, yo soy blank and blank. So give me two of these characteristics.
do describe you and then give me one that doesn't describe you. No soy something. So if you want to go ahead and pause the video while you complete this. All right let's go through how this should look. Mi nombre es Rob.
That's my name. Mi nombre es Rob. Mi apellido es vest. Mi apellido es vest.
Note that the double L will produce a Y sound in Spanish. Mi apellido es vest. Yo, I, yo, soy de Michigan.
Yo soy de Michigan. Flint, Michigan, actually. Trabajo. En la universidad. So I work in the university.
Trabajo en la universidad. Two characteristics that describe me. Yo soy. And so you don't want to use any of these that say estoy. Because that's not soy.
Those are two different verbs altogether. Even though they both mean I am. Yo soy estudioso. Very studious.
Yo soy estudioso. Y soy relajado. I'm a very laid back kind of person.
Yo soy. relajado. No soy. Yo no soy atlético. No.
Yo no soy atlético. Athletic. No.
No soy atlético. All right. The last thing I want to look at in this very short recap lesson is weather.
When you're talking to somebody and you don't know them and you're like introducing yourself, it can be hard to find something to talk about. It's one of the most common topics that everybody talks about and everybody likes to talk about is the weather. So let's go through some of these weather phrases. Hola, soy Rob.
I'm Rob. Soy Rob. ¿Qué tiempo hace? ¿Qué tiempo hace? What's the weather like outside?
¿Qué tiempo hace? And so to answer this question, ¿Qué tiempo hace? You can use one of these phrases. And they all have pictures, so you can kind of figure out what each of them means. Hace viento.
Hace... Está nublado. It's cloudy. Está nublado. Llueve.
Llueve. It's raining. Llueve. Nieva. It's snowing.
It doesn't really snow as much here. Back home, it snows quite a bit more. Hace buen tiempo.
Hace buen tiempo. Down here, we have hace frío. Brr.
No. Hace frío. Hace mal tiempo. It's storming out.
Hace mal tiempo. It does that a lot here, especially with like hail. I didn't really ever see hail as a kid.
Hace calor. Hace calor. Hace calor afuera.
Necesito clima. I need some air conditioning. Okay, so tell me. ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy? Looking outside.
Hace calor. Sí, hace calor. I don't exactly know. how hot it is outside. Let me check my iPhone real fast.
Yeah, 90 degrees out. Hace calor, hace mucho sol. Hace mucho sol. Hace sol is it's sunny. Hace sol, I don't see that on here.
It should be on here. Hace buen tiempo. Beautiful though. Not a cloud in the sky.
Hace buen tiempo. So again, these are also contained in that same area in Lingual Learning. Make sure you watch the video showing you how to get through ring of learning just so that you're not getting lost and to make sure you're doing all the activities for each week.
All right. If you guys ever have any questions, just go ahead and shoot me an email. Otherwise, I'll see you at the next lesson.